Social participation in health: the limits and possibilities of control social in the state reform context.

Abstract

This study aims to contextualize the social participation in health in Brazil since the 1980s, especially with the Health Reform Movement. It analyzes the concept of social control as population control actions on public health and the need to effect such participation in order to guarantee the right to health. It discusses, briefly, which health policy can be effected as a result of the dispute between the public and private changes from 1990, with the call of the State Reform. Finally, it is evident participation in health councils as important space of resistance to the privatization of health.